IF THE EXCLUSIVE GOOD MEAN UNITY, A NEW GENUS WOULD BE UNNECESSARY.

But if by Good we here mean the unity which lies in Essence, we would

not hesitate to acknowledge that the actualization by which Essence

aspires to Unity is its true good, and that that is the means by

which it receives the form of Good. Then the good of Essence is the

actualization by which it aspires to the Good; that act constitutes its

life; now this actualization is a movement, and we have already ranked

movement among the primary genera. (It is therefore useless to make a

new genus of "Good conceived as unity").

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